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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Interesting biography drawn from a diary and contemporary records and diaries. An attempt to analyse the life of someone that the author didn't know. A well written, easy to read and entertaining book. My main interst was to see how a biography with a family history bent on a wwi ancestor of the standard mr average person would read. I must say Palin has done a great job with so little and weaves a view of the times and places with his Uncle’s life so as t9 fill in the many large gaps in his story.
Great-Uncle Harry represents Palin’s attempt to get to know this apparently unknowable man. Short on words and ill at ease in family photographs, Harry was the youngest of a huge and distinguished brood, and spent the first years of adulthood bumbling around the world in search of work... We follow Harry through two violently misguided military campaigns, in Gallipoli and the trenches of northern France... There are moments of breathtaking personal sadness, too. A long-distance courtship, perhaps the defining relationship of his life, comes to an end. “Put the question to her on parting, but I fear it’s no good,” he writes in his final few months. “God bless her. I love her and I think she loves me, but not enough to marry me.” It is a moment of quiet devastation in a book full of atrocities.
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of family gossip and correspondence he could. He studied every relevant official document. He tracked down what remained of his great-uncle Harry's diaries and letters, and pored over photographs of First World War battle scenes to see whether Harry appeared in any of them. He walked the route Harry took on that fatal, final day of his life amid the mud of northern France. And as he did so, a life that had previously existed in the shadows was revealed to him. Great-Uncle Harry is an utterly compelling account of an ordinary man who led an extraordinary life. A blend of biography, history, travelogue and personal memoir this is Michael Palin at his very finest. ___________________________________________ PRAISE FOR EREBUS: 'Beyond terrific. I didn't want it to end.' BILL BRYSON 'Magisterial . . . Palin brings energy, wit and humanity to a story that has never ceased to tantalise people.' THE TIMES 'Everybody's talking about it . . . A brilliant book.' CHRIS EVANS 'I absolutely loved it: I had to read it at one sitting.' LORRAINE KELLY Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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